Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

"......did not
do this to me
I have been this way since college...
>>once i thought I re-invented music"
~Carrie Mathison (character)
Homeland, Season 1

This every soul seeketh and for the sake of this doth all her actions, having an inkling
that it is; but what it is she cannot sufficiently discern, and she knoweth not her way, and concerning this she hath no constant assurance.
~Plato

"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way."
~Gillian Anderson
copy and pasted from Brainyquote

key words: dog pose

Yes—at first one is sort of concussed and ‘life has no taste and no direction’.
One soon discovers, however, that grief is not a state but a process — like a walk in a winding valley with a new prospect at every bend.

C. S. Lewis

(^I don't really want to debate that point, but here's a quote from someone who's not quite there yet.)

I lost Ed Truck, and it feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears. And at the same time, somebody else is hitting my soul in the crotch, with a frozen sledge hammer. And then a third guy walks in and starts punching me in the grief bone, and I'm crying , and nobody can hear me, because I'm terribly terribly, terribly alone.
~Michael Scott, The Office

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Tao begot one.
One begot two.
Two begot three.
And three begot the Ten Thousand Things.
~ Lao Tzu

Thirty years ago, before I began to study, I said, 'Mountains are mountains, waters are waters.' After I got insight into the truth of Zen through the instructions of a good master, I said, 'Mountains are not mountains, waters are not waters.' But now, having attained the abode of final rest, I say, 'Mountains are really mountains, waters are really waters.'
Are the three understandings the same or different?
~Ch'ing yuan Wei-hsin

Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water, carry the water
Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, into silent water
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

- Talking Heads and Brian Eno

A battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water.



A diamond from Juína, Brazil, containing a water-rich inclusion of the olivine mineral ringwoodite. Credit: Richard Siemens/University of Alberta

"It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large amount of water that's trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth," said Graham Pearson, lead study author and a geochemist at the University of Alberta in Canada. The findings were published today (March 12) in the journal Nature.

http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_a...or-is-all-wet#

"I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell' "
~Omar Khayyam

“Shoot, shoot, and shoot some more. What else to say? Drop your job and shoot … if you feel that’s what you want. Freedom, happiness, money… all will come after you let go and just shoot.”

Oleg Oprisco